
Smart contracts are programs on a blockchain that execute automatically when certain conditions are met. Amp is the preferred token on the Flexa network. and Canadian digital dollars as well as a number of loyalty tokens and digital currencies. Flexa guarantees transactions made using U.S. Because amp is open source, developers can create their own apps that use amp to secure transfers.Īmp’s parent company also created Flexa, which is an open-source digital payment processing network. It then releases the funds to the receiving party. Staking uses smart contracts to freeze assets until the transaction has been verified. Transactions are guaranteed through a process called staking. States can compare policies among other better performing states of equivalent size, geography, culture, or political affiliation to identify potential policy changes to improve their numbers and rankings.As a digital collateral token, amp can secure any type of asset users want to transfer, such as digital payments, fiat currency, loan distributions and proceeds from property sales, according to the Amp website. While lack of movement at the bottom indicates continued neglect of the mental health needs of constituencies. A lack of movement at the top could indicate long term commitment towards better mental health policies. The connecting lines point to several changes among those states that have significant movement in ranking. Those states that took aggressive policy changes, such as the implementation of The Mental Health Services Act in California, resulted in significant changes in access to care. For example, states who passed laws supporting implementation of mental health parity laws and the Affordable Care Act show improvements in access to insurance rates. Changes in these rankings may reflect policy changes that support constituencies who suffer from mental health problems. State and local level policies have the biggest impact on access to mental health care. Adults with Disability Who Could Not See a Doctor Due to Costs.The 7 measures that make up the Adult Ranking include: Lower rankings indicate that adults have higher prevalence of mental illness and lower rates of access to care. States with high rankings have lower prevalence of mental illness and higher rates of access to care for adults. Adults with Disability who Could Not See a Doctor Due to Costs is from 2012.Youth with Severe MDE who Received Some Consistent Treatment is the same time periods (2010-2014) for both ranking and therefore did not affect ranking change.Mental Health Workforce Availability is from 2013.Students Identified with Emotional Disturbance for an Individualized Education Program is from 2012.Using past data, we ran the sum of scores for the overall ranking and the access to care ranking and compared those ranking to our most recently available rankings.ġ1 of the 15 past year’s measures included data from years 2009, 2010, and 2011. Students Identified with Emotional Disturbance for an Individualized Education Program.Children with Private Insurance that Did Not Cover Mental or Emotional Problems.Youth with Severe MDE who Received Some Consistent Treatment.Youth with MDE who Did Not Receive Mental Health Services.Adults with Disability who Could Not See a Doctor Due to Costs.Adults with AMI who Did Not Receive Treatment.Youth with Dependence or Abuse of Illict Drugs or Alcohol.Youth with At Least one Past Year Major Depressive Episode (MDE).Adults with Serious Thoughts of Suicide.Adults with Dependence or Abuse of Illicit Drugs or Alcohol.The 15 measures that make up the overall ranking include: The overall ranking includes both adult and youth measures as well as prevalence and access to care measures. The combined scores of all 15 measures make up the overall ranking. A low overall ranking indicates higher prevalence of mental illness and lower rates of access to care. A high overall ranking indicates lower prevalence of mental illness and higher rates of access to care.
